A national roundtable seminar titled ‘Making histories: radio as a cultural technology will take place this weekend in Melbourne.

This seminar will chart the place of radio as a cultural technology in contemporary Australia. It will explore genealogies and histories of radio, the impact of current technological developments in the field and critical cultural analyses of the medium. The seminar will be a single session, in-the-round style to promote maximum interaction and discussion amongst participants.

Topics will include: Research Strategies – creative practice based radio research; Implications for radio of the multimedia soundscape; Commercial talkback radio as a public forum: Policy, programmes and publics; Community Radio and Youth Development and many more topics.

The event is being held under the auspices of the Australian Radio-Audio Researchers Association (ARARA) and the Cultural Research Network’s (CRN) Cultural Histories and Geographies node.

A full program is available from the link below.